How To Remove The Xbox App In Windows 11

Windows 11 is great for gaming, thanks to features like DirectStorage, Auto HDR, and of course, having the largest library of games out of any platform. Many of those games can be obtained through the Xbox app, which is built into WIndows 11 and gives you access to a ton of games (including cloud gaming) plus social features.

But Xbox isn’t the only platform for gaming on Windows, and in fact, it’s not the most popular one, with platforms like Steam and the Epic Games Store being more appealing to more users. So if you don’t want to see Xbox on your PC, you can remove it. Here’s how.

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Windows 11: Everything you need to know

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How to remove the Xbox app in Windows 11 using the Settings app

Uninstalling the Xbox app in Windows 11 is the same as uninstalling any app in Windows 10 and 11. If you’re not familiar with the process, follow the steps below to completely remove the Xbox app from your system.

Open the Settings app.
Click Apps from the left sidebar.
In the Apps menu, select click Installedapps.
Type “Xbox” into the search bar, right-click on the three dots next to the app, and select Uninstall from the drop-down menu.
Windows will ask you for a confirmation, so click on Uninstall once again to remove the app.

Now, if you search for the Xbox app in the Start menu, you’ll find that it has been successfully removed from your system. You can quickly reinstall the app from the Microsoft Store whenever you want.

How to remove the Xbox app in Windows 11 using PowerShell

The traditional method of uninstalling apps works just fine for the Xbox app, but that’s not always the case. Sometimes, Windows will automatically download and reinstall the app in the background without asking you. If you want to permanently remove the Xbox app for good, you can use a few commands in PowerShell to get the job done.

From the Start menu, search for PowerShell by typing it into the search bar.
Click Run as Administrator, and click Yes on the confirmation dialog box that pops up afterward.
Use any of these three commands to successfully remove the Xbox app from your system:
```
get-appxpackage *xboxapp* | remove-appxpackage
```

This will uninstall the app for the current user, but there are variations of this command if you want to remove the app for all users. If you want to remove the app for existing users, you can use this command:

get-appxpackage -allusers *xboxapp* | remove-appxpackage

If you want to remove it and prevent it from being installed for user accounts created in the future, you can use this command instead:

get-appxprovisionedpackage –online | where-object {$_.packagename –like “*xboxapp*”} | remove-appxprovisionedpackage –onlinedsda

This will only affect the Xbox app, so there’s no need to worry about changes to other parts of your system.

Getting rid of the Xbox app in Windows 11

Microsoft’s native Windows 11 apps and features are useful, but they can be a bit buggy and intrusive at times. The Xbox app is great when it works, but terribly frustrating when it doesn’t, plus you might just not need it. When the app eventually starts giving you a headache, just follow the methods above to quickly uninstall it. We recommend the PowerShell method if you want to get rid of the app for good. While you’re at it, you might as well disable the Xbox Game Bar if you don’t get much use out of it.